And emissions scandals may soon spread to Daimler, the company that makes Mercedes-Benz.

On Friday, Volkswagen released a financial statement that it delayed for months while the company’s diesel emissions scandal unfolded. The company has now reported a record loss of $6.2 billion for 2015. Moving forward, VW Group also said it would set aside €16.2 billion (about $18.22 billion) to begin covering "technical modifications,” legal claims, and other fallout from the company’s cheating.

"The current crisis—as the figures presented today also reveal—is having a huge impact on Volkswagen’s financial position," VW Group CEO Matthias Müller said. "Yet we have the firm intention and the means to handle the difficult situation we are in using our own resources.”

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After illegal “defeat device” software was found on 500,000 diesel vehicles from VW Group, the company wrote off approximately $7 billion in early 2015 to cover fines and other costs. Today’s $18 billion write-off includes that $7 billion.

After the initial discovery, another 80,000 diesel Porsches and Audis were found to have similar emissions-system-evading software, and the US Justice Department sued VW Group for billions of dollars in fines. The German automaker has since agreed to buy back at least 500,000 of its diesels on the road. The company said it will also compensate buyers monetarily.

That buyback announcement came yesterday, but it could change. US District Court Judge Charles Breyer still needs to approve the settlement, and he may not do so until June. Meanwhile, 600,000 diesel vehicles are still driving on US roads, in some cases emitting 10 to 40 times the amount of nitrogen oxide (NOx) as is legally allowed by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Volkswagen has certainly been at the center of this scandal, but it may not be alone for long. The New York Times reported that Daimler, the company that makes Mercedes-Benz, is being investigated by the US Department of Justice in connection with emissions testing. For now, few details about that investigation are available. But if improprieties surrounding Daimler's diesel emissions are found, the company would not face the same drama that VW Group is facing. "Cars with diesel engines accounted for less than 3 percent of the 340,000 passenger cars that Mercedes sold in the United States last year,” the Times reports.